I suspect there has been a thread on this before, but never mind. I was reminded of a cracking example in Moonraker which one of my children was watching the other night. (SPOILER ALERT, although you must be pretty sad if you can not guess the outcome of a James Bond film). In the "climactic" (ho, ho) battle scene on board the space station, there is a conveniently placed big red button that shuts off the gravity to the station, labelled with an equally convenient warning sign that reads in big letters "EMERGENCY STOP - Do not use unless station is secured". Drax might as well have said " Go on, Mr Bond, I dare you". I fell to wondering just why such a button would be incorporated into a space station and featured prominently where any passing crew member could press it. In case someone aboard suffered from space ennui and fancied a bit of floating for fun?

It is hysterical. And it has a definite Chuck Jonesian kind of vibe to it. It's subversive & irreverant in a way Disney animated movies almost never are.

I definitely saw a Looney Tunes energy in the clip above. Your statement still sounds a bit hyperbolic to me. Then again, I haven't seen it for myself.

I don't think so. The movie has very much a Looney Tunes vibe to it and the character design is very much in the Chuck Jones mold. I'm not saying it is the greatest animated movie ever made. I'm saying if Chuck Jones' name appeared on the credits as director or Mike Maltese's name appeared as the writer, no one would be surprised. For that matter if Warner Brothers was listed as the studio no one who knows anaimation would bat an eye...as a Disney film it is very much an odd bird.

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It is hysterical. And it has a definite Chuck Jonesian kind of vibe to it. It's subversive & irreverant in a way Disney animated movies almost never are.

I definitely saw a Looney Tunes energy in the clip above. Your statement still sounds a bit hyperbolic to me. Then again, I haven't seen it for myself.

I don't think so. The movie has very much a Looney Tunes vibe to it and the character design is very much in the Chuck Jones mold. I'm not saying it is the greatest animated movie ever made. I'm saying if Chuck Jones' name appeared on the credits as director or Mike Maltese's name appeared as the writer, no one would be surprised. For that matter if Warner Brothers was listed as the studio no one who knows anaimation would bat an eye...as a Disney film it is very much an odd bird.

I so very much agree. I don't, as a rule, go for the Disney animated stuff, it's just too ... Disney. This one's not and I think that I will get it on BR one of these days. It's just too fun and Warburton is perfect.

It is hysterical. And it has a definite Chuck Jonesian kind of vibe to it. It's subversive & irreverant in a way Disney animated movies almost never are.

I definitely saw a Looney Tunes energy in the clip above. Your statement still sounds a bit hyperbolic to me. Then again, I haven't seen it for myself.

I don't think so. The movie has very much a Looney Tunes vibe to it and the character design is very much in the Chuck Jones mold. I'm not saying it is the greatest animated movie ever made. I'm saying if Chuck Jones' name appeared on the credits as director or Mike Maltese's name appeared as the writer, no one would be surprised. For that matter if Warner Brothers was listed as the studio no one who knows anaimation would bat an eye...as a Disney film it is very much an odd bird.

I must stand behind this... it is awesome, funny, and awesomely funny.